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Garmin certainly does offer outdoor adventure equipment with subscriptions and is looking for ways to incorporate subscriptions into more products because that's where the money is. Ex employee.

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InReach and a few other specialised products, right?

I’ll be super disappointed if they start trying to charge a monthly sub for their fitness watches.

Conversations were around the intersection between cycling and safely equipment where the core features legitimately depend on ongoing services outside the device (gsm, for example).

Yeah I personally see no issue with subscriptions on that sort of product, or on things like the recent sim-compatible Forerunner watch.

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